BOTH SUSPECTS WERE WANTED FOR AN ALLEGED BURGLARY. THE UNITED STATES HAS FINISHED A BIG PROJECT TO PROTECT LAUNCH PAD AND OTHER SPACE FACILITYS FROM THE ENCROACHING ATLANTIC. THE BEACH HAS BEEN REBUILT AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. WESH 2'S DAN BILLOW JOINS US LIVE FROM CAPE CANAVERAL. HOW BIG WAS THIS PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM TOOK ALMOST A MILE OF SAND AND ALMOST A YEAR OF WORK TO FIX. NOW THE LAUNCH PADS SHOULD BE SAFE. CRASHING WAVES FROM HURRICANE SANDY DID THE HEAVIEST DAMAGE. AND WHEN THE OCEAN SETTLED THE VIEW AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER'S BEACH WAS ALARMING. 65 FEET OF BEACH GONE. IMPORTANT RAILROAD TRACKS ALMOST UNDERMINED. LAUNCH PADS THREATENED. NOT ALL OF THE DAMAGE WAS FROM SANDY. PRIMARY CONCERN IS, YOU KNOW, TO PROTECT OUR LAUNCH OF THE STRUCTURE. IT TOOK UNTIL RECENTLY TO GET THE BEACH BACK TOGETHER AND TOOK ALMOST A MILE-AND-A-HALF OF SAND. 90,000 CUBIC YARDS WORTH. THAT ALONG WITH 180,000 NEW PLANTS -- SUB FLOWERS -- SUNFLOWERS, VINES, SEA PLANTS AND PALMETTOS. THE WORK PROTECTS HISTORIC LAUNCH PAD 39 A WHERE SPACE SHUTTLES AND APOLLO MOON ROCKETS LAUNCHED AND WHICH NOW IS RUN BY PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND PROTECTS PAD 39 B AS WELL WHERE AMERICA'S PLANNED SUPER ROCKET WILL EVENTUALLY BLAST OFF. SEA TURTLES ARE PROTECTED TOO. THE SLOPE OF THE DUNE PROTECTS HATCHLINGS FROM THE FATAL DISTRACTION OF LIGHTS. AND NASA CONSIDERS CLIMATE CHANGE AND SEA LEVEL RISE AN URGENT PROBLEM. MORE STORMS ARE CERTAINLY ON THE WAY AND IT'S HOPED THE NEW SAND WILL PROTECT WELL INTO THE FUTURE AS EROSION GETS WORSE. SO THE SPACE CENTER IS SAFE FOR NOW BUT IN THE FUTURE NASA IS STARTING TO PLAN FOR WHAT IF CALLS -- WHAT IT CALLS MANAGED RETREAT. POSSIBLY MOVING ROADS AND EVEN LAUNCH PADS FARTHER IN AS SEA LEVEL RISES.